War Wire

Biden lauded the sacrifice of generations of U.S. troops who died fighting for their country as he marked Memorial Day with a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery.
After 20 years, Dina Al Bayati remains scarred by the conflict that “everyone lost.”
The focus now shifts to the Republican-controlled House, where Speaker Kevin McCarthy has been noncommittal.
Despite thousands of lives and trillions of dollars lost, some Republicans argue that good things came out of the war and the invasion was ultimately worth it.
The push to repeal the 2002 Iraq War and 1991 Gulf War authorizations for military force have steadily gained bipartisan momentum in recent years.
The 2002 law authorizing the use of military force against Iraq's Saddam Hussein could be repealed after 20 years.
Shaw was best remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 as missiles flew around him in Baghdad.
"It turns out we were all wrong," David Kay said in his bombshell 2004 testimony.
The secretary of state had to assure the U.N. Security Council that he was trying to avert a war, not start a war.
"When I’m in a parking lot, I can feel my sniper looking at me through the scope of their gun. My body gets hot and I begin to sweat."